The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1925, Page 1

The First Anti-Imperialist | Week Is Now Over But Every Day Should See New Blows Against Imperialism. Vol. Il. No. 181. SUBSCRIPT — Sy 4 ° “esmy $0 C Ry + . 4 4” "9 FRACTIONS (Special to The PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 5.—In response to the pressing needs of the thousands of steel workers struggling under almost unbearable conditions for a mere existence, the Communist frac- tion within the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has become definitely organized and a concrete program of work outlined. Thru the Communists employed in the unorgan- ized mills and furnaces it has become linked up with the great problems of the unorganized. Last week at a conference details of organization were wor participated representing Workers Party units whose members are employed in the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio. Both district organizers from the Cleveland and Pittsburgh dis- + tricts,, Wagenknecht and Swa-| AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY pee WOODHEAD, the “ AALGAMATED STEEL UNION: PLAN DRIVE By ARNE SWABECK, ON RATES: G PARTY Daily Worker) held in Youngstown, Ohio, the ked out. About thirty delegates beck, were present together | with William F. Dunne, repre-| senting the central executive. senting the central executive committee of the Workers Par- ty. is * Past Mistakes Reviewed. ™ Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.0¢ per year. FRANGE SEEKS SECOND French government will large loan from J. P. Morgan and | company before | ments to fund its four billion dollar | debt to the United States, it was rumored here in official circles. Premier France would pay her debt to Ame- rica, “to the extent of her ability.” BIG STRIKE MORGAN LOAN BEFORE PAYING DEBT TO U, 8. (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, July 5,.— The seek a making arrange- At a fourth of July celebration, Painleve declared that OF PATTERN MAKERS IS ON Hits Jobbing | Houses of Chicago A strike of the Pattern Makers in- TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1925 A.C.W. STRIKERS RETURN TO THE ~ FIRING LINES M aehihist Local Raps Members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers on strike against the International Tailoring company and J. L, Taylor company (owned by the same people), which are fighting the A. €,(W. to establish the open shop under the guise of a fake union agreement with the United Garment Workerg)to furnish scabs, are expect- ed to Teturi from the week-end and holiday Yadation with renewed spirit for the sedond week of militant and mass picketing. Mags Picketing Wins. This form of action, the massing of all strikers to face the scabs and their police and private slugder protectors, has won the first week’s battle, since no power earth can break a strike Soviet Union. posts at the frontier. . Germans in Soviet Russia for an attempt to assassinate Soviet officials, to ally herself with her former foe, “perfidious Albion,” and has sent a pereptory note} to Moscow demanding the re-| lease of the criminals. | France Discusses Situation. | France, whose imperialist interests are in a crisis, with the Moors slicing fiercely at her African colonies, has ation an offer from England to join} hands with Britain, Germany, Poland| Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,,:1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL British Inspired Threat of War on Soviet Union Is Stirring All Europe | NEW YORK ED |_-_ EDITION Price 3 Cents (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 5.—All the diplomats of Europe are stirred by the threat of a war upon Soviet Russia by an alliance of imperialist powers led by Great Britain, which is launching a propaganda thruout the world to provoke a severance of the present relations between England and the Poland, the creature of British banking interests, is taking the physical offensive by wanton raids of Polish troops across the Soviet frontier and attacks by arms upon the small Red Army —— a Bi Ait Germany, under Hindenburg, | has seized upon the excuse = COMMUNIST PARTY OF the sentence to death of three) DECLARES CHINESE PEOPLE IN FINAL FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (By International Press Correspondence.) MOSCOW, June 16.—(By Mail.)—The central committee of the Chinese under the Painleve cabinet’s consider-|icommunist Party has published the following manifesto in which it defines \its attitude to the protest movement in Chine: that is fought with such spirit and) IHE Shanghai blood bath is no accident, but the unavoidable conse- British gentleman who essayed to In reviewing the Communist poll- and Roumania in a war upon Soviet volving all pattern makers in the job-| cohesiomy | quence of the imperialist policy in China, the result of its enslave- enlighten the students at Chicago | cies in the trade unions as applied in a | Russia, | s ‘ Taphesity: cues thacalutklion ‘n-Ghine: | astaal Ble: “thiy ‘cllgsa kes ‘tiahe ia ag] Oe abneprta ne privatise Every and all day, morning,} jt is obvious that the excuse of ment: The history of China since the Nanking agreement is the. history blamed the Chinese for all their | Plication in. certain unions and the| “9% called by noon and hight, the streets have) Soviet “interference” in China is not| of bloody suppression. sociation of Chicago and vicinity on swarmed With workers, milling and APES <a The. strike:"te 100 ed wi ie the- entire reason for Britain’s acts, as| own ubles. Thi as to be ex-|S%eneral lack of application in the : i | tro is Wi ee marching: a? and forth, with eyes | long before the upheaval in China be-| . . Friday, July 3rd. pected. It is quite believeable, that | Stee! workers’ union, many important per cent effective and was called to The Shanghai tragedy has led to consequences which open a new i history of the development of Chinese national conscious- eeled ie elusive scab. The hun-} ¥ A : _| Page in the : had the Chinese workers submitted to ei Gane as to the’ délégaten enforce the union or closed shop, a irate bs police and’. sluggers who | eign OM ee ote ness. All the imperialists oppose the Chinese national movement with th loitation of the British an : fi a : . | 7 . ; * raphneed chauasirs ait 10k a oa present that the tendency often mani-|™inimum wage of $1.25 an hour, for) jayq ee te er en Bice (ageinet the ‘Soviet: Unien to, Brance|® *dusl:snmityy Husthla. dope not abelish: the ‘centilots between: ty’ meee the 8-hour day and 44-hour week, The strike was first called in the Noback Shop, located at Van Buren and Clinton streets. The Pattern Makers’ Union tried to obtain a con- ference with the bosses to discuss these demands. fested to submerge the left wing is- sues in order to quietly gain offices, could have nothing but serious conse- quences for the left wing and for the labor movement in general, as particu- R some reason that the British |jarly the Communist must put. for- can never understand, or ‘any | ward these issues and lead tthe fight other imperialist for that matter, sub-| for more militant Policies. , ject peoples never properly appreciate Failure to do so can only teau to ets only brings a more spirited crowd | under the Herriot government, to the pi¢kst line the next day. | Soviet Indignation Is Rising. No Divisién Between New York and| Soviet Russia, on behalf of the Chicago, | workers and peasants of the Soviet . Union, are indignant that Britain in- . The shops of the same firm in New sists upon violation of international York City, was emptied in 15 minutes | jaw so flagrantly as to try before a when @ Wire arrived from Chicago | foreign mixed court set up in Shang-| telling the Workers in New York that | hai, China, a citizen of Soviet Russia. rialists themselves and at the moment they are engaged in trying to Smit the blame upon each other’s shoulders. This expresses itself in the attitude of Japan towards England and In the hypocritical sympathy of Germany for the Chinese students. The movement which has developed from the Shanghai strike must set itself wider alms than the punishment of the guilty and the compensation of the faniilies of the victims, it must set itself not judicial but political aims, above all the cancellation of the unfair agreements made between indignities heaped upon them without a murmur, John Bull would have let well enough alone. eee Bosses Refuse to Talk. the efforts made by their’ benefactors to better their condition and lift them serious right wing deviations. How- ever, any general tendency to minimize The bosses’ association called its meeting and flatly turned down a con- ference with the union. Thereupon their Chicago brothers are fighting to prevent the union from destruction. | Soviet Russia long ago gave up the| extra-territorial privileges in the old| the foreign powers and China and the abolition of the privileges extended to foreigners, as otherwise there is no guarantee for the safety of Chinese up to the pinnacle of civilization oc- | the importance of Communist. trade | Here there-is no question if the work- lives. cupied by their masters. We have the Hindus, who according to ‘the British are yet in a state of political and cultural infancy, always rebelling against their benevolent rulers.» ~~ “* oe se af Sei same is true of the Egyptians tho the British have so far man- aged to hold them down by’means of guns, etc. An occasional slaughter of Egyptians is Jatirely in harmony with the ethics of christianity. The Chin- ese (there are over ‘400,000,000 of them), managed to get along before the British empire was founded. They increased and multiplied at least, in| Rooseveltian fashion. Their god was not up to the scratch in the ways of piracy, like the British god, so the| Chinese found themselves © sucking opium, forced on them by John Bull, for the greater glory of god. Out of the profits of the opium trade the | British were able to hire missionaries | and endow churches. Opium was to/| the Anglican church what the saloons | in America were to the Catholic church. ieee | careers misrule is caused by the} efforts of the Chinese masses to get rid of foreign rule. In other words there would not be any trouble in China if the masses worked sixteen hours a day, suffered the floggings of the brutal factory bosses in silence, and in general allowed the foreigner capitalists to walk over them. In- stead of being a great liberator and revolutionist, Dr. Sun Yat Sen was a great scoundrel, according to Mr. Woodhead. Pi9 5 Bie the Chinese don’t think. so, | Mr. Woodhead, and when Chinese give the British taxmasters the tip of the boot or better still the point of the sword out of their coun- try, they will owe more gratitude to Sun Yat Sen than to any other single individual in the history of China. That Sun's memory is hated by the British is_the best testimony to his character. . British propagandists are (Continued on page 6.) 890 STREET GARMEN - STRIKE AGAINST THE ~ OPEN SHOP IN 1OWA (Special to The Daily Worker) DES MOINES, Ia, July 5.—The 800 employes of the Des Moines street car system are on strike, fecting a complete tie-up of service since Saturday morning. The issue is one of the union to job control and the attempt of the company to force an open shop. The company refused to discharge a con- ductor whose union card had been revoked. This refusal of the com- pany isa violation of iti | Thomas. the 7 total of 47,557 men. union activities and the necessary or- basis becomes equally dangerous. Such mistakes are most often made by the eroneous concep- ~~*e(Continuemen page 6.) ganizational COMMUNISTS IN ‘POLAND EXPOSE BRUTAL MURDER Socialists Laugh at Workers’ § Suffering (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, (By Mail)—At one of the last sessions of the Polish Diet the deputy of the Communist faction, Pristupa, disclosed in a speech the activity of the Polish sec- ret service and emphasized the touch- ing care the Ministry of Interior is taking of the police. We shali quote the most interesting part of his speech: “77 per cent of the whole budget the Ministry of Interior is assigning to the police. Not only has the per- centage of expenses consumed by the police increased, but the number of this body also increased. In the year 1924 the internal police-toree _con- cisted of 36,953 men, and thé’frontier force | 10,604 men. That. made up a In’ March 1925 the number of police increased’ to 61,903 men, not counting whole gangs of spies, secret agents and paid plot- ters, the number of which, acéording to the statement of the officer Russi- nek, can not be fixed.” ays Socialists Hide With Killers When Pristupa disclosed details of the base assassination of the Workers Gaichik ang Pilarchik, who. were choked by poisonots gases and point- ed out at the murdering of Bag and Vecherskovitch and others,’ the Polish Socialists interrupted ” his speech with mockeiy ox¢ ns : “Please tell us how many anthgovern- ment meetings did you organize,” or “what do you care about the ‘assassin- ations of workers.” Calles Deinécstivthe His Loyalty to the Mexican Landowners MEXICO CITY, July 5.—The land- owners of the state of Durango have declared their support of the Calles government, after President Call promised them to “limit lands taken to those absolutely necessary for up- with the union and telegraphic sanc- tion for the strike was obtained from International. City offici: e trying to break the strike by issuing bus licenses, lifting the peasants.” Calles said most of the lands the nts hold are held illegally, only about five per cent of the lands grant- ed having received his signature — the union, the Pattern Makers’ Asso- ciation of Chicago and vicinity retali- ated by issuing a cal for a strike which will effect the entre jobbing in- dustry. At the meeting of the union last Tuesday, June 30, there was the larg: est turnout of members in a year. The focal unanimously voted to levy an assessment of $3.00 per member on those on the job in the manufacturing industry. The spirit of the members of the union and strikers was high. They are out to win the strike in spite of all obstacles and to teach the bosses a lesson. Come Back Strong. Four years ago, in 1921, the pattern makers of Chicago struck and lost. Since then they have been repairing the damage and today they are com- ing back 100 per cent strong and de- termined to win the strike. Prior to the present strike, attempts at con- ferences were made by the union but they were unsuccessful. The union therefore girded itself for a deter- mined battle against the attempts of the bosses’ association to smash their union and the conditions they have won thru many years of struggle. Communists On Firing Line, Among the strikers are a number of members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party who are taking promi- net and leading parts in the strike. The headquarters of the striking pattern makers are at 119 Throop street. The strikers are all on the job picketing and their morale is high. from the rank and file, and vincing all will New everywhe: Edition! City workers! noon, and thoroly demonstrated to a appropriateness of his name, in China, a He may have’ been there that long, but he failed to absorb even enough (Continued Coming Tomorrow! Tomorrow the DAILY WORKER will publish a great Special Edition, devoted to the str suspended executives of Locals 2, 9 ani national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and the Sig- man-Perlstein-Feinberg machine in the New York City Joint Board and the International. - Documents, critical articles, news: articles, stories eech for the defense before the Trial Committee, e there—and illustrated with a photo of the aiertiea pacing the mer alieck th Local 22. or! je Stand by to distribute the I. L. G. W. Special IMPERIALIST SPEAKER ON CHINA GIVEN AN UNCOMFORTABLE TIME BY QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE (By Student Correspondent.) H. G. W. Woodhead spoke at the University of Chicago Wednesday after- H. G. W. Woodhead bears the honorary title of C, B. B,, is editor of the Peking and Tientsin ‘Times, and of the China Year Book, and is advertised as an Bnglishman of twenty years’ experience ers in New York City have the same interests as those of Chicago and vice The w j-readily see that any- thing wl ir New York brothers: ts them also. There is “forthe etiemiés of the workers toidrive a division between the workers of Chieago and those of New York. Class Viewpoint Seen Essential. Neither can any unionist of Chicago deny that a broad class viewpoint is necessary in the labor movement in addition to the narrow trade issues in one union omindustry. The left wing machinists and members of the Trade Union Educational League in Lodge of Machinists on Friday night, took up the battle against union scabbery | and the lodge’ passed a resolution con- demning the: scabbing of the United | Amalgamated strikers. | The Chicago Federation of Labor | did not hold ‘a meeting yesterday. A/ number of delegates came to the| meeting place, the Musicians’ Hall, at} Washington and Wells Sts., but:none of the officials put in an appearance | nor could they be reached over the | telephone. Seven Killed on Fourth. Seven were killed and ten were seri- | ously injured as a result of Fourth of July explosions and shootings, in Chicago. treaties forced out of China at the! | point of bayonets, and in so doing! agreed that Soviet citizens should be| |tried before Chinese courts and un-| der Chinese: laws. But Soviet Russia did not agree that | Soviet citizens should be seized upon ; by imperialist nations wlio have oc-)” | cupied coastal regions in China by force of arms and tried before courts | where neither the laws nor the judges are Chinese, but are British; British Labor Watchful. The labor movement of ‘England, which has lately turned to the left following the sharpening ofthe in-| dustrial crisis from the depression in| production of the Dawes n; and| the widespread enlightenment of British unionists upon conditions in| 199, of the !International Association | Soviet Russia thru the report of the British Trade Union delegation, is be- coming alarmed at the menace of war in the actions of the British eabinet. Labor unionists are pointing out Garment Workers fake union on the | that the hope of remedy for the in-| creasing unemployment in England is} being destroyed by hostile acts to-| wards Soviet Russia which has opened | up great commercial and trade pos-} (Continued on page 2) | le between the 22 of the Inter- Hyman’s eloquent and con- bers of the |. L. G. W. crowd of fivé hundred students the on bege 3) Leninism vs. Imperialism The Communist Party is faced with the following tasks: 1. The development of the present movement to a permanent one having as its aim the destruction of foreign dominance in China. 2. The bringing together of all classes in Chinacby their participation in the national revolution and the drawing of the widest masses of the people to the struggle, -The. Communist Party must warn the Chinese people again: forgetting that the present government of Tuan Shi Tshi is the tool the imperialists and that Chang So Lin is an agent of Japanese imperialism. Compromise is out of the question. It is better to suffer a defeat than to use enemies as defenders and go-betweens. The imperialists are attempting to split the movement by declaring that the movement has its beginning from the Communists and the Soviet Union. Should it be true that the Communists are thé originators of the movement, then the Chinese people must attach itself to the Communists all the more as the representatives of the whole Chinese people. If it is true that the Soviet Union supports the movement, then it jis but another proof that the Soviet Union is the only friend of Chinas nfortunately, the Soviet Union cannot help the Chinese people immediately to throw off the yoke of imperialism. |The Shanghai events showed that all sections of social- ism have recognized the necessity of supporting the workers and peasants against the imperialists. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese are facing the cannon directed against them by the imperialists. Despite the martial law, despite the threats and brutality, the whote population of Shanghai supports the strikers unitedly. The sacrifices will not be in vain, the Chinese people will pursue the cause of its free- dom to the end! .